Bottle carrier



F. E. GREEN BOTTLE CARRIER Feb. 5, 1946.

Filed Feb. 28, 1944 INVENTOR. I Err- E ETL IO f , Ff'EdEP-Luk E BY v I 4/ ATTORNEYS.

Patented Feb. 5, 1946 UNITED STAT ES PATENT oFFioE I BQTTLEECARRIER :Frederickll. Green, TopperiiShQWasih. Application Eebruary 28, I944, SerialfNo. 524,2Bfl

(Cl.i224.45.)

4 Claims.

will assist one another in providing a compact arrangement of bottles,'and rattling of the-bottles will be substantially eliminated.

Still another object is to provide a bo'ttle'carr'ier,-constructed of wood, metal or plastic materials, or combinations of them, so that a more sturdy and permanent carrier will result, adapted "to be reused, in contradistinction to a cardboard or heavy-paper bottle carrier,

Among other objects are to provide a bottle carrier in which boring or stamping out 'of holes or sockets is eliminated and substantially allthe portions of the carrier are fiat sheets, easily cut *or stamped,"and readily assembled.

Other objects and advantages of the invention "will be apparent during the following detailed 'description'of the invention, taken in connection with "the accompanying drawing, forming a portion of this specification, and in which drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the novel carrier. Fig. '2 is an elevation thereof 'Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section 'on'sub- .stantially the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, butwit'h-a plurality-of bottles contained therein,shownin dotted lines.

Fig. 4 is avertical longitudinal section on substantially the line 44 of Fig. 2 but with a plurality of bottles contained therein.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, the letter A may designate bottles carried by the novel carrier B.

The bottle A illustrated is a conventional bottle, having a cylindrical body portion 5 and a neck portion 6, sloping upwardly from the neck portion; the juncture l of the neck portion 6 and the body portion 5 being convex and, beyond this juncture l, the neck portion is somewhat convex as at 8, The mouth of the bottle may be closed by the conventional bottle cap 9.

In the example shown, the novel carrier B is adapted to contain an even dozen bottles A, instead of the usual eight bottles, eight bottles being upright and four being upended, or upside down.

The carrier A includes a substantially fiat,

elongated base portion In, paralleling, vertical end walls H extending'from the base portion, a

partition I2, a handle l3 bridging the end walls H attheir upper ends t4 and disposed with its longitudinal axis substantially "intersecting the vertical me'dial lines of the end walls, and "a pair of paralleling, *horizontally disposed guard slats or members 15 extending "fromone "end wall H to the -'other *end wall H at adjacent their ends 1-6.

The end walls ll 'may have a width "substan- 'tially'the same as the width of the baseport'ion "f0 at their lower ends l-'| but, adjacent to the juncture o'fthe guard'slats l5 and end walls '11, the latter gradually narrow toward their upper ends "Hi, 'asin Figs. '2-and"3.

It will be noted "in Fig. 3, that the 'guardslats 15 are so disposed, with respect to the bottles bot'h upright and upsidefiown, that theneckzportions .6 of all bottles come within the horizontal planes *of these slats 15, since the latter are spaced above the upper-"end of the partition 12.

The partition I"? is of novel construction; It is considerably less in height than "the heights of theend walls H and -preferal'ily extends across the base portion "I 0 from the vertical medial 'line 'o'fone end wall H to the 'same line of "the other endwall H "andm-aybe securedj-by suitable fasteners, to theend-walls, as at I 8 in Fig. 4,

This partition I2 is provided, in the example shown, with four "spaced "apart 'notches Hi. In order to "provide a 'close, compact, "line 'contact of 'aiijacentbottles'ortheir caps, the centerspl the outermost notches F9 are spaced 'fronrth :inner "face ill of the notchsrad'jacent'wafll "H a distance substantially equal to the radius of "the 'outer circumference of the body portion 5 of the bottle A. The length of each notch I9 is substantially the same as the diameter of the bottle cap 9. The

center of each notch I9 is spaced from the center of its adjacent notch 19 a distance substantially the sam as the outer diameter of the body portion 5 of bottle A. The depth of each notch I9 is such that the cap 9 of each upright bottle A will have line contact with the neck portion or portions 6 of each adjacent inverted bottle or bottles A, as may be seen by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. While the partition I2 may be narrow, in order to conserve space and material (in fact it may be a narrow metal or plastic material strip), the arrangement disclosed is such that the upright bottles A mutually support the inverted bottles A upright, when the caps 9 of the latter rest in the notches 19. Of course, the end walls H aid in the support of the inverted end bottles A, as may be seen in Fig. 4, as well as retain the upright bottles A from sliding longitudinally of the carrier B or tipping oil the ends of the carrier.

The guard slats l5 prevent the upright bottles from tipping off the sides of the carrier B.

After the inverted bottles A are removed from the carrier B, the upright bottles may be canted slightly and removed from the base portion 5. It will be seen, from Fig. 3, that the neck portion 6 of the canted bottle A, shown in dots and dashes, may enter one of the notches IS in order to remove the bottle.

Various changes may be made to the form of the invention herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of the invention or scope of the claims.

What is claimed is:

1, In a bottle carrier adapted to contain bottle both upright and upended, a flat base portion; paralleling end walls extending upwardly from said base portion; a handle bridging said end walls at their vertical medial lines; a guard slat extending from adjacent each outer end edge of one end Wall to adjacent the outer end edges of the other end wall; a narrow partition extending from one end Wall to the other end wall at substantially their vertical medial lines and spaced wholly below the horizontal planes of said handle and slats, said'partition having a plurality of upwardly opening spaced apart notches, the center of each end notch being spaced from the adjacent inner face of an end wall substantially th same distance as the radius of the outer circumference of a bottle carried by said carrier, and the center of each notch being spaced from the center of each adjacent notch a distance substantially equal to the outer diameter of the body of said bottle, and the length of each notch being substantially the same as the diameter of a bottle cap carried by said bottle. 7

2. In a bottl carrier adapted to contain bottles both upright and upended, a fiat base portion; paralleling end walls extending upwardly from said base portion; a handle bridging said end walls at their vertical medial lines; a guard slat extending from adjacent each outer end edge of one end wall to adjacent the outer end edges of the other end wall; a narrow partition extending from one end wall to the other end wall at substantially their vertical medial lines and spaced below said handle, said partition having a plurality of upwardly opening spaced apart notches, the center of each end notch being spaced from the adjacent inner face of an end' wall substantially thesame distance as the radius of the outer circumference of a bottle carried by said carrier, and the center of each notch being spaced from the center of each adjacent notch a distance substantially equal to the outer diameter of the body of said bottle, and the length of each notch being substantially the same as the diameter of a bottle cap carried by said bottle, said slats being spaced above the horizontal plane of the upper end of said partition, on a line with th neck portions of bottles, both upright and upended, within said carrier.

3. In a bottle carrier for upright and upended bottles, a base portion, paralleling vertical end walls extending therefrom, a partition extending across the upper face of said base portion dividing said carrier into two substantially equal parts, a pair of slats extending from the outer edges of one end wall to the like edges of the other 'end wall, one slat or each side of said carrier and wholly above said partition, said partition being less in height than the height of either of said walls and having an upwardly-opening, inverted-bottle-cap-receiving notch, of substantially the same length as the diameter of a conventional bottle cap and having a cap-supporting base, the height of said partition and the position of said notch being such that an inverted bottle may besupported upon said base in an upright position and when a bottle, resting upright upon said upper'face, is canted, the neck of said bottle will enter said notch, whereby removal of said bottle will be facilitated.

4. In a bottle carrier adapted to contain bottles both upright and-upended, a flat base portion; paralleling end walls extending upwardly from said base portion; a handle bridging said end walls at their vertical medial lines; a narrow partition extending from on end wall to the other end wall at substantially their vertical medial lines and spaced below said handle, said partition having a plurality of upwardly opening spaced apart notches, the center of each end notch being spaced from the adjacent inner face of an end wall substantially the same distance as the radius of the outer circumference of a bottle carried .by said carrier, the length of each notch being substantially the same as the diameter of a bottlecap carried by said bottle and the depths of said notches above said base portion being such that, when abottle disposed upright upon said base portion, is canted, the neck of said bottle will enter one of said notches, whereby removal of said bottle will be facilitated.

. FREDERICK E. GREEN. 

